24 season 6

24 Season 6
24 Season 6
Season 6
	File:24 S6 Cast.jpg Season 6 cast
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	Fox Broadcasting Company
Original release	January 14, 2007 –; present
Season chronology
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	List of episodes

Season Six, also known as Day 6, of the television series 24 premiered on Sunday, January 14, 2007. It premiered on Sky One in the UK on January 21, 2007, with two episodes, then there will be two episodes the following week, and another two the week after, before having only one episode per week. The Australian premiere was on January 30, 2007. Subsequent episodes will air at 10:30 on Wednesday night on channel 7.

The season's storyline began and will end at 6:00 a.m. It is set 20 months after the events of the fifth season.

A 10-minute preview was available exclusively to the American audience with the fifth season DVD.

Season overview

Season Six (2007) is set 20 months after season five. Show designers acknowledge that it should technically take place in January, 2013, but also that this is partially incorrect, as they avoid the use of dates in order to have the show remain in a "perpetual now".^[1] Even though the phones in CTU show this, Wayne Palmer acknowledges that he has been president for a little over three months, and according to years past, the real date should be May 2013.

After the events in season five and over the last 11 weeks before Day 6, the United States has been targeted coast-to-coast in a series of suicide bombings including a train bombing in Atlanta, casino bombing in Las Vegas, park bombing in Phoenix, hospital bombing in Detroit, a mall bombing in Baltimore, office building bombing in San Jose, hotel bombing in Chicago, a taxi bomb in New York City, bus bombing in Los Angeles, bombing at the airport in St. Louis and street bombs in San Antonio, Milwaukee, and Portland, Oregon. President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Jack Bauer from a Chinese prison. A man by the name of Hamri Al-Assad is believed to be behind the attacks. A man named Abu Fayed agrees to give the U.S. the location of Assad in exchange for $25 million and Jack Bauer. Jack is turned over, but Fayed tells Jack that he is behind the attacks, not Assad. In fact, Assad is trying to stop them. Jack escapes, and tries to warn the President before Assad is killed, but he refuses to abort the air attack. Jack quickly rescues Assad shortly before the attack.

Assad and Jack then work together, stopping a suicide bombing in The Los Angeles Subway and tracking a suspect that they thought would lead them to Fayed, but he didn't. Instead, he leads them to a computer that informed CTU and Jack that Fayed is planning to detonate nuclear weapons in the U.S. Curtis Manning appears and prepares to take Assad back to CTU. Jack then finds out that Curtis wants revenge against Assad and is forced to shoot and kill Curtis to save Assad. Distraught at being forced to kill his friend, Jack collapses and vomits. He calls Bill Buchanan at CTU and quits.

The terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in Valencia, California. The nuclear explosion is visible to Jack as he is lying on the ground, still sick over forcing to kill Curtis. It isn't long before Jack realizes that he wants to save lives and gets back on the job that would eventually lead him to his brother, Graem Bauer, and his father, Phillip Bauer. Jack would eventually follow more leads and stop another nuclear bomb from going off in Los Angeles. Jack now has the task of disarming the remaining nuclear bombs.

Major plots

Episodes 1-4: Jack Bauer is released from China and is asked to sacrifice himself to Abu Fayed to stop a wave of bombings across the US. Jack learns that Fayed is the mastermind of the bombings. Unwilling to die for nothing, he escapes and teams up with former terrorist leader Hamri Al-Assad to stop a suicide bombing in LA. They later discover that Fayed has 5 suitcase nukes. One of the nukes is detonated prematurely in Valencia, killing over 12,000 people.

Episodes 5-8: Jack finds out about the involvement of his family with the suitcase nukes, specifically his father Phillip and brother Graem (who were also involved in the conspiracy in Day 5). Fayed pays arms dealer Darren McCarthy to find another scientist to reactivate the triggers on the remaining four suitcase nukes. McCarthy captures CTU analyst Morris O'Brian and has him delivered to Fayed. Fayed tortures O'Brian, who soon breaks and programs the trigger. Jack rescues him with CTU's help, finds one of the four remaining nukes and disarms it.

Episodes 9-12: Phillip Bauer kidnaps his grandson Josh, and forces Graem's wife Marilyn to lead Jack away from Dmitri Gredenko's location, in an attempt to capture him and cover up his own involvement in the day's events. This leads Jack back to his father, who releases Josh and leaves Jack with his contact: ex-President Charles Logan. Logan eventually attempts to blackmail Russian Consul Anatoly Markov into revealing Gredenko's location, but is unsuccessful. Jack breaks into the consulate and tortures Markov. Markov gives up Gredenko's whereabouts, but before Jack can give CTU the information, he is taken into custody and although attempting, he is unable to reach Bill Buchanan. It is revealed that Gredenko and his Russian associates are using Fayed as a scapegoat to exact revenge against America for the Cold War. Meanwhile, President Palmer's Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock and an associate attempt to assassinate the president and frame Hamri Al-Assad. The President survives, but is unable to continue his executive duties so Vice-President Noah Daniels takes over. Chief of Staff Tom Lennox, turns two suspects in, but Daniels still treats him as a suspect.

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Episodes 13-?: CTU learns of Jack's capture by the Russians, a strike team force lead by new Director of Field Operations Mike Doyle attacks the Russian consulate, causing a diplomatic crisis. Charles Logan visits his ex-wife Martha Logan for help with the crisis but he sees that she has not forgiven him and that Aaron Pierce has taken his place. Meanwhile, Russian Consul Anatoly Markov calls Dmitri Gredenko to let him know about the crisis and to launch immediately, an hour earlier then scheduled.

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Sub-plots

Abu Fayed tries to get his revenge on Jack Bauer for torturing and killing his brother.
The bad relationship between National Security Advisor Karen Hayes and Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox forces Karen to resign.
The bad relationship between Morris O'Brian and Milo Pressman after being involved with Chloe O'Brian (Morris ended up with her.)
Former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad is accused of being the one detonating all of the bombs when he is really being framed and trying to create peace.
Jack Bauer is emotionally depleted after enduring 20 months of torture in China which ended just hours before Day 6 begins.
Walid Al-Rezani, boyfriend of Sandra Palmer (David and Wayne's sister), spies for the FBI inside a detention center in Washington D.C., only to be beaten and hospitalized for nothing--the suspected inmates are merely spectators.
Graem Bauer, the mysterious apparent mastermind behind the events of Day 5 of 24, turns out to be Jack's brother.
Phillip Bauer, Jack's father, mysteriously - but apparently intentionally - disappeared the day before the nuclear explosion in L.A. Phillip may have maintained ties with BXJ, the company from which the suitcase nukes were garnered. As a result, his affiliation with the terrorists is suspect. After killing his son Graem (to prevent him from breaking under interrogation) and trying to kill Jack, it is later revealed that he was behind Day 5's events. After closing in to kill Jack, Phillip escapes - inexplicably leaving a lead for Jack - and is still at large.
President Wayne Palmer rejects Thomas Lennox's executive orders for federal intervention in suspecting Muslim communities in front of the entire Cabinet.
Political Operatives Reed Pollock and Bruce Carson plot to kill President Wayne Palmer and have Vice President Noah Daniels take office. Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox initially joined in on the plan, but ultimately refused and is held hostage by Pollock and Carson.
Vice President Daniels attempting to convince Lennox to suppress information about who was behind the assassination attempt, in order to further Lennox's hommeland security plan - leaving an implication that Daniels himself may have been involved in the plot.
Marilyn Bauer having mixed feelings when Graem Bauer dies as she has been trying to leave him for years.
Morris O'Brian being emotionally depleted and mired in self-pity after being tortured by Abu Fayed and placating them by programming a device that can arm the remaining nukes, driving him to want to start drinking again.
Former President Charles Logan claims he has information about Dmitri Gredenko’s whereabouts through the Russian Consulate in Los Angeles. With President Wayne Palmer’s approval, he is now temporarily released and he will help Jack Bauer to obtain the information on Gredenko.

Preview

A 10-minute preview of Season 6 of 24 is available on the Season 5 DVD. The clip begins with a recap of Jack's capture at the end of season 5 before cutting to him now being held captive by the Chinese, 7 months later at an unidentified location. He is being tortured by several guards who inform Cheng Zhi that they are still unable to extract information from him regarding a Chinese government agent who they believe is working for the United States. Frustrated at his unwillingness to speak, the guards throw him back into his cell.

Shortly thereafter, two American covert-ops soldiers break into the complex, killing a guard, in order to free Bauer from his cell. They lead him through an outdoor complex, to a concealed vehicle nearby. After a brief chase, they come to a dark field where the men tell Jack that they will have a transport ready to pick him up shortly. The two soldiers then summon a man by the name of Hong Wai, who had been concealed in the shadows of the field, to greet Jack. Hong Wai is immediately recognizable as one of the men that Jack had been questioned about earlier, regarding the mole in their government.

As Jack flinches in recognition of Hong, several flood lights come on, and Chinese military vehicles swarm on the scene. Cheng Zhi walks into the field and thanks Bauer for his help in identifying Hong, whom he had apparently suspected all along. Zhi then executes Hong with a single shot to the head, and thanks the covert-ops agents for their role in the set-up, promising them that money will be transferred to their Swiss bank accounts. The guards are then ordered to return Jack to his cell where he will continue to be held prisoner.

Incidentally, this is the only sequence of 24 not exclusively utilizing the real time aspect of the show, with the possible exception of the flashback at the end of Day 1.

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Tzi Ma (Cheng Zhi), and John Koyoma (Hong Wai).